Finally lost it with neighbours

[FinnalyCracked]

There’s four houses on the close - and none for miles (converted country barns - hence the being so close together and yet nothing for miles).

Neighbour A has three cats and all are outdoor cats. Me and Neighbour B have dogs. Neighbour C is irrelevant to this pet debacle.

Neighbours A’s cats, since they moved in, have constantly shit in everyone’s garden. Don’t come at me and tell me it’s not them as the closest village is six miles and no one else has sodding cats!! They sit on the garage and hiss at anyone who goes by and are, quite frankly, obnoxious.

I’ve bitten my tongue but neighbour Cs and B have not. Neighbour B has taken much delight in having their dogs chase the cats off. Neighbour C has invested in barbed wire and other such things to keep the cats out

Yesterday, neighbour A knocked on my door and asked me to call my dogs in as they were ‘destroying her enjoyment of her garden.’ I was very polite - but very firm - and told her to fuck off (not quite that frank, but you get the idea). I’d just finished work, so the dogs had been inside with me so they’d been out about five minutes when she appeared. She launched into a a bit of a diatribe about how B and I have been ruining her summers for years now with our dogs barking and running around.

I snapped. Said her cats constantly shit in my garden and I had to pick it up as I had small children and that her fucking hot tub was obnoxiously loud, so was their music and their shitheaps of cars (her partner always has a rotation of them that he tinkers with) all over the driveway lowered the tone and created exhaust fumes, and that if I ever saw her cats in my garden again I’d be taking a leaf out of neighbour Bs book and setting my dogs on them. Then I told her not to come onto my property again and slammed the door in her face.

It’s a first world problem, I know. But I am just so fucking sick of biting my tongue and being a good neighbour )including taking her fucking parcels) and she has the bloody gall to tell me my dogs can’t be in the garden, as their playing ‘ruins her enjoyment.’

WHAT ABOUT MY FUCKING ENJOYMENT, DEBBIE?!?!

That’s it. That’s all I wanted (just a place to rant)

Yeah because there is only one Debbie in the whole entire world who has a cat. Unlike around 5000 in reality.

We live out the country and rarely get fox poo in the garden. Maybe the smell of the dogs deter them.

When we do get fox poo, I have no problem telling the difference between it and cat poo. They are completely different. I can't understand all these people suggesting the op could be confused between them.

And yes, the stink from fox poo is horrendous. As is the stink from the dog who treats it like a perfume and rolls in it😩

According to Plop Trumps (a poo version of Top Trumps) the fox and the snow leopard are equally worst when it comes to stinkiness.

Dog shit is as disgusting, filthy and infectious too.

The old battered cars on the drive are the thing that would definitely annoy me the most but I don’t know what you can do about those, surely this woman Dosen’t want her partners battered cars in front of her house either so maybe say it in a nice way to her and she could then use that complaint to make her partner move them

What woman either you (op) or your neighbour wants a bunch of battered old cars in front of their house,

Cat shit in the garden when you have kids is really disgusting as well though

Neighbours …..AArgh….

You would think when you move to the country you wouldn’t have so such problems! / or so many of them!😂

I feel this - my neighbours cats constantly shit in my garden. Or sit on top of the shed and hiss at my toddler when he's playing outside. I was totally fucking sick of it. The owner does nothing.

I got one of those high frequency things cats hate. Solved the issue immediately.

That won't help you with your dogs though sadly.

Tbh though you both sound like a problem..

The cats can probably sense you don't like them. They probably shit in your garden on purpose now. 😆 Are there Foxes about as well, as they do the same.

To be honest everyone here sounds dreadful. Falling out with each other is going to make living together great fun for all of you too.

Team cat anyway. 😆 Always. 🐈‍⬛️🐈‍⬛️🐈‍⬛️

And cats don't bark 🥰

Not all cats bury it.

Cat poo and fox poo look completely different. I doubt anyone is confusing one for the other.

I bought one and they are good but you need to know where the cats are coming into the garden in order to position effectively. A couple of them will help.

If you address the cat sludge, and it stops, you're going to feel so much better. You won't care about their other behaviour.

They should analyse cat shitting in garden effects because something about it triggers me immensely. It's almost like it represents no control over your environment, your space and being overpowered or forced to accept that which we don't want to.

One time, the old neighbours cat stopped in my garden as I was stood in the doorway to it, dropped it's ass and it no joke looked at me as it released it's Mr Whippy special. The rage was disproportionate of course but in that moment I wanted to kill it.

I adore animals, including spiders and bugs who I protect. But this is what it can do to people 🤷‍♀️😆

When we do get fox poo, I have no problem telling the difference between it and cat poo. They are completely different. I can't understand all these people suggesting the op could be confused between them
You might do but it doesn't mean everyone does, especially if they are not famous luar with cats. I used to liv in a close, 8 houses, 4 cats, never cat poo in the garden. Fox poo though....and it's not just foxes. There are many other wildlife animals in the countryside. I personally don't know what badger poo looks like!

Again it's an old wives tale. There has not ever been one single confirmed account. Ever.

Cats shitting in my garden would drive me mad, it can contain parasites and bacteria, so yes I'd be pissed off too. Unfortunately unless kept in 24/7 cats are roamers and care not where they shit.

For me though and as strange as it sounds it would be their loud music that would really really piss me off.

Along with bonfires on nice days people that play music loud enough for neighbours to hear deserve to have their genitals infested with billions of camel fleas.

She can use fencing that prevents the cat getting out of the garden.

There is a really annoying dog next door to me! everytime I put stuff in the bin the dog next door goes crazy and yaps for hours which is so annoying!

I can see how the cats' defecatory activity would be annoying, but I think you are taking the hissing too personally. I've never known a cat that was as irritating as a barking dog.

Hot tub and any potential annoying bonfire smell fire pit usage aside, sorry you and B sound unkind neighbours. Dogs barking inside are clearly heard outside too, and I personally find it sad when dogs are left all flipping day with neighbours having to listen to the tripe all day, only for their owners to usually come home for dinner and out again in the evenings and weekends ignorant of the din everyone else suffers.

Barbed wire / allowing or encouraging dogs to chase a well loved pet? Seriously? I don’t get on with my neighbour and I think she doesn’t like me, but we never hurt or are unkind to each others pets, that’s a low thankfully we wouldn’t stoop to.

Yes cats pooping in gardens isn’t great, but I’d take that in a heart beat cleaning up after them and current foxes etc than listen to constant dog howling and barking all. day. long.

Lowering the tone - you swearing more does it for me than the odd car.

I would go for a peace keeping journey and look to each of you can find common ground. You may all agree dogs will bark and cats will poop, how can everyone look to minimise without physical or emotional cruelty.

Again, not. We'll have to agree to disagree.

Otoh, toxoplasmosis is not an old wives tale.

They are under control if they are secured on their own property.

Dogs being allowed to bark incessantly is extremely annoying but so are cats straying into others' gardens, doing their business and bothering the birds. Both are natural behaviours.

Personally i bring my dog inside if it barks and i would understand neighbours being annoyed if i didn't, but equally i have no problem shooing (either myself or my dog) next door's cat off if they came into my garden, and my neighbour should understand that also.

There's probably a shit identification app. Probably called I-Defication.

I don’t know where people are getting ‘continuously barking’ from. I think if you’re going to knock on someone’s door to complain about dogs barking when they’ve only been outside for a few minutes then you’d best make sure your own pets aren’t shitting all over the neighbourhood. I’m also not sure who keeps spreading the myth that cats bury their shit, the ones who shit on my front garden definitely don’t!

The dogs are in her garden. They are allowed to play in their own back garden, they aren't roaming around other peoples houses.

cats are free spirits - they shit where they like

Well that was unnecessary. If the dog eat it the dog eats it. Who cares? It's not going to kill the dog. I promise* you that your dog eats far worse in your garden than cat shit. Such as snails. So what? Such a fuss over absolutely nothing!

Plop Trumps. Great game.

I don't have pets but I am unlucky enough to live next door to not 1 but 2 neighbours who have small yappy dogs, who NEVER take them for walks so as soon as they go on their gardens they let loose with their barking and it is nothing short of anger inducing. To the point we cannot enjoy our garden without listening to the stupid things yapping away. In nicer weather it goes on all for HOURS! it's ridiculous! Nobody and I mean absolutely nobody wants to hear a dog or several dogs barking/yapping several times a day. Either train the dogs to not bark unless in the event of an emergency (yes it can be done) or expect your neighbours to very quickly become pissed off with it.

Dogs barking is one of my personal sensory issues, the pitch goes straight through me and it actually hurts my ears.